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WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure you're talking about WhatsApp? I don't see stories anywhere. Never saw anything like that. Maybe you're talking about Snapchat or Instagram or something else?

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Either they haven't rolled this out in your country yet, or you haven't updated the app in a while.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The app is up to date. Maybe you're right and they only deployed this in some countries. How long ago did this show up for you?

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I don't use it myself, I've see it on a friends' phone, so good question. Was a while ago though, a few months, maybe?

[–] Flipper@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At least for me on android there are 4 Tabs. Community's, chats, ~~current~~ updates, calls.

Edit: I checked the translation.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have community, chat, updates, calls. None of them have anything related to stories or feeds.

[–] Flipper@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wrong translation on my side. Check the updates tab. On more recent versions you've got the "Status", those are the stories people are talking about. Below that are the channels of influencers and other people I don't care about.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm. I see status updates but they are changes in people's status, not stories, there's only ever a handful of updates, and it just shows the names of the people who updated their WhatsApp status, which happens very rarely. There's no feed there, nothing to scroll.

Below that I see Channels, a list of companies to follow, and an "explore more" button. Which I haven't touched and don't intend to. If that's where the feed is... well, I don't know what people expected, it's obviously going to be corporate marketing.